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by causi 4y ago
Well, I really meant "HN readers" when I said "people". Totally agree with your point though. Kids don't think technology is cool anymore. When I was growing up even the jocks knew how to burn a CD or put a file on
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by causi 4y ago
Are people these days not generally aware of the difference between single-channel and dual-channel RAM configurations?
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by causi 4y ago
I gotta admit, as someone whose first Morrowind experience was on a smartphone running OpenMW, combat that requires aiming correctly and having hit chance was infuriating. One or the other would be fine, like with a Zelda-esque lock-on fe
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by causi 4y ago
Hell if I could get a Metroid Prime Remastered-type remake of every game from my childhood I'd never need another new property again. Better than playing a new game that takes up 120GB on my drive of which 80GB is microtransaction text
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by causi 4y ago
Trains aren’t just cruising around constantly on fire. If they were, would you know? I wouldn't.
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by causi 4y ago
Sure, Cloudflare can protect you against almost any realistic technical attack. Let me know when they have a service tier that protects me from a hate mob writing angry e-mails, because currently nobody on Cloudflare is safe from that.
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by causi 4y ago
They so like cloaking themselves as noble crusaders against censorship, but their crusades never go further than their ideological doorstep. Sadly that's true for almost everyone on both ends of the political spectrum. The loudest vo
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by causi 4y ago
And in turn we're allowed to criticize them for it.
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by causi 4y ago
Owning residential land without living on it, sometimes without even having the right to live on it in the case of foreign companies, seems perverse to me. It feels like claiming exclusive ownership over an acre of the ocean or a cubic ki
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by causi 4y ago
Interesting. That's only the second time I've seen a moderator manually remove something that wasn't flagged.
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by causi 4y ago
Considering how fast the field of dinosaur studies is moving, this needs a (2012) tag.
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by causi 4y ago
You can fix that with an extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcf...
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by causi 4y ago
Interesting. Here I am thinking one of the best things about HN is how the usernames being a lighter shade makes them easy to ignore entirely and focus only on what's being said instead of the speaker.
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by causi 4y ago
You get the constant impression he either didn't have an editor or had an editor with no power to force changes. Especially near the end of the third book where you can tell he's gotten tired of his Big Bad Guys and just decides t
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by causi 4y ago
I'm surprised there's enough separation between aboriginal australians and everyone else for differences that intense to still be possible. No subgroup in the US is that different from everyone else.
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by causi 4y ago
Battery longevity is much less a concern for me these days with fast charging. My phone dropping from being 70% when I plug it in to 30% would only increase my time on the charger by a few minutes since it charges so much faster at low perc
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by causi 4y ago
They can be designed to appear like stone, wood, concrete or brick, so can be hidden on walls and floors, as well as on roofs, Somebody wanna run the numbers and tell me how many decades it will take for one of these things to offset its
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by causi 4y ago
He had a massive library to learn from. My skills don't include tactics either but he worked on this problem for months and never came up with anything better than a flying headbutt.
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by causi 4y ago
Would you agree then, that we need to deal with the racial discrimination in society to ensure that those groups who are disadvantaged so that they aren't able to compete on the same playing field when applying for jobs which hire bas
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by causi 4y ago
No, I am saying racial discrimination is wrong regardless of whether or not you expect it to make the world a better place. Also, Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's e
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by causi 4y ago
Advantage applicants based on their perceived accomplishment, ability, and effort without taking into account their ethnicity.
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by causi 4y ago
You're entirely correct, but DEI doesn't only concern itself with class differences. If it did there would be no D or I in it. It deepens socio-ethnic divides by declaring that what color your skin is determines what your grades a
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by causi 4y ago
They deserve the same opportunity. They have already been unjustly denied it by the time they reach university, and no amount of pretending their B+ is as good as someone else's A+ is going to undo that. University slots are scarce, an
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by causi 4y ago
"Acting more Asian" certainly would've helped me . Probably wouldn't have made me happier, but more successful, absolutely.
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by causi 4y ago
Yeah but in the book he's literally having to ration his drones because he can't figure out how to kill a gorilla any way except suicidally ramming them head-on.
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by causi 4y ago
Thanks for saving me the time of reading the rest of your comment. I would point out that responding to the strongest possible interpretation of someone's argument is also in the HN guidelines.
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by causi 4y ago
The average asian family in the US is actually better off than the average white family Exactly. Why is that? It isn't because they came over to America and enslaved people, or won a war, or placed themselves at the head of a religio
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by causi 4y ago
that people of those backgrounds are inherently more lazy No more than the average Southern white American is inherently more racist. Your culture is an influence, an advantage or disadvantage for any particular endeavor. If the endeavor
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by causi 4y ago
Try again. His parents were first-generation immigrants and his dad died when he was little. His mom was an RN, he had two younger siblings, and he worked at Kroger his last two years of high school. Our friendship fell off because he never
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by causi 4y ago
Yeah but in real life you could grab somebody and yell "Oh my god, stop moping about how scared you are of explosives and just put a goddamn steel blade on your flying murder-drones so they're not one-use-only."

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